Congress of Russian Communities

The Congress of Russian Communities (KRO) is a national conservative political party in Russia which was founded in 1992 by Dmitry Rogozin. It was founded to promote the rights of ethnic Russians in the post-Soviet republics, and it contested a number of State Duma elections during the 1990s. In 1996, KRO presidential candidate Alexander Lebed won 15% of the vote, but he lost to Boris Yeltsin; he went on to serve as Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai before dying in a helicopter crash in 2002. In 2006, the party was revived by Rogozin, and the party later supported Alexander Lukashenko's presidential candidacy.